Vestibule Bench by Regent Park Community and PDA

This bench was designed through community collaboration. Last summer PDA worked with members of the CRC community through the design process. After much brainstorming, analysis, discussion & sketching the group was able to come up with a design that would meet the needs of the CRC’s vestibule bench. We then moved to the Dixon Hall Mill Centre to build models, prepare the salvaged church pews to be transformed and construct the benches almost to completion.

PDA would like to thank Simone Ferkul, Bahar Ghaemi and Vincent Monastero for their support in the design process; Steven Johnston and Justin Teschner at the Mill Centre; David Loewy and Adrian Kenny at Ryerson; Adam Vandermeij and his chainsaw; as well we would like to thank Amy Markanda for helping us with the final construction and finishing details. See Amy’s Harvest Table for the exhibition here.

This is a new project from the always inspiring Zahra Ebrahim. She is looking for designers and clients, I mean “specialists” and “patients”: The Design Walk-In is a storefront design health clinic opening at 367 King Street West on June 1, 2012. The project is a temporal social experiment helping the general public access design […]

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PDA creates community engaged design projects that improve the community. We do this by holding workshops with communities in need and teaching them how to make and remake things like furniture. Then we take these objects and we put them out into the communities they were made in. We also reach out to the design community and universities to produce objects as well.